1.1Cry aloud, do not spare,
1.2lift up your voice like a trumpet
1.3and show my people their transgressions,
1.4and the house of Jacob their sins.
2.1Yet they seek me daily
2.2and wish to know my ways,
2.3as a people that did righteousness,
2.4and did not forsake the judgment of their God;
2.5they ask of me judgment and righteousness;
2.6they take delight in drawing near to God.
3.1Why have we fasted,
3.2and you do not see it?
3.3Why have we afflicted ourselves,
3.4and you take no notice?
Isaiah 58:1-33.5In the day of your fast you do what you wish,
3.6and you present offerings to all of your idols.
4.1You fast for strife and quarreling,
4.2and to strike violently with the fist of wickedness;
4.3you will not fast as you do this day,
4.4to make your voice to be heard on high.
5.1Is it such a fast that I have chosen?
5.2A day for a man to afflict his soul,
5.3to bow down his head like a bulrush,
5.4and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
5.5Will you call this a fast,
5.6and an acceptable day to the Master?
Isaiah 58:3.5-56.1This is the fast that I have chosen:
6.2To loose the bonds of wickedness,
6.3to cut off the bands of treachery,
6.4to let the oppressed go free,
6.5and to break every yoke;
7.1to share your bread with the hungry,
7.2and to bring the stranger to your house;
7.3when you see the naked, to cover him;
7.4and to not refuse one of your own flesh.
8.1Then your light will break forth as the morning
8.2and your righteousness will spring forth speedily;
8.3and your righteousness will go before you;
8.4the glory of the Master will be your reward.
9.1Then you will call, and the Master will answer you;
9.2you will cry, and he will say, Here I am.
Isaiah 58:6-99.3If you remove deceit from your middle and release the prisoners
9.4and cease speaking falsehood;
10.1and give your bread to the hungry,
10.2and satisfy the afflicted soul;
10.3then your light will shine in darkness,
10.4and your darkness be as the noonday;
11.1and the Master will guide you continually
11.2and satisfy your soul with rich food;
11.3and strengthen your bones;
11.4and you will be like a watered garden,
11.5and like a spring whose water does not fail.
12.1Some of you will build the old waste places;
12.2you will raise up the foundations of many generations;
12.3and you will be called The repairer of the breaches,
12.4the restorer of paths to live in.
Isaiah 58:9.3-1213.1If you turn away your foot from the sabbath,
13.2from doing your pleasures on my holy day;
13.3and call the sabbath, A delight,
13.4the holy of the Master, Honorable;
13.5and will honor it, not doing on it your own ways,
13.6nor doing on it your own pleasure, nor speaking idle words;
14.1then you will put your trust in the Master;
14.2and I will cause you to ride on the high places of the land
14.3and feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father;
14.4for the mouth of the Master has spoken it. Isaiah 58:13-14 (Isaiah 58 BRB)